Saturday, 26 October 2013

I really am on the last minute for everything this week... It's been one of those where I need longer days so I just have one card for you for the moment :-(

I've used some dotty card from Anna Marie for my card base... I love spotty card and then after using the curved edge die from Simon Says Stamp I have wrapped the crumb cake card stock with red twine from the ribbon girl. It's finished off with a sentiment from LOTV and some cheery lynn holly leaves.

I'm hoping this week will be a lot less chaotic and I'll have some crafting time

This card shows a couple of ways of adding Gilding flakes. The Penny Black tree was stamped in Versamark and then sprinkled with Stamp 'n' Bond. After heating, the flakes were adhered and then burnished with a scoochy or whatever the little scrubby things are called.

For the sentiment, I added the flakes in a different way. I put some double sided sticky paper onto the front side of the card before die-cutting the letters. Once cut, I peeled off the backing and then dropped the letters into the tub of flakes. Once more they were burnished with the scrubby thing. Sadly the picture doesn't do justice to the fab shine one the card.

For this one I printed some freebie download trees from Simply Cards and Papercraft mag onto scraps of DP from my left-over drawer. In fact the papers look more similar once printed as this version has text on too. I simply varied the size and cut out the trees adding a little Stickles to each one.

The sentiment is computer generated in a font to match the text on the trees.

My first card uses a fabulous Stampin Up stampin in hero arts shadow ink and simply stitched around the edges. The sentiment is the from the same set. The shadow inks blend into the paper you use to give a smooth ink effect.

My second card uses tiny trees from waltzing mouse stamps. I used the same colour shadow inks for the tree but onto crumbcake card stock. The spotty paper is from anna marie designs.

Here I have used one of Bugaboo's digital images. I just love this pair of legs!
It's coloured with Copics and then glazed with Anita's 3D Gloss. The background has been twinkled with Glamour Dust. The sentiment is computer generated.

This cutie of a monster is another digital image... this time from A Day for Daisies.
This was coloured with watercolour pencils and a water brush. The sentiment is from a retired SU set. I bought this as a single stamp on eBay so I don't know the name of the set it was originally part of.

It's so easy to get wrapped up in the theme of the challenge and forget about the One Layer part, so remember to stamp directly onto the card base and only add minimal embellies... if at all!

We would also like to encourage you to visit fellow participants in our challenge... even if you only manage a few, it means so much to receive a few friendly words... that goes for us too!Have a great week!

This is a really simple card. It uses a stamp and its co-ordinating die from Poppy Stamps with a sentiment from Simon Says Stamp. Simply stamped and embossed in silver.

I took these pictures one after the other with the same conditions but they turned out so differently colourwise. Again, not very good editing, as this looks an odd colour maybe I should try to take another picture, but my camera battery is on charge at the moment.

Here is a little chickadee from Technique Tuesday, stamped on a cut file from the same company. The tree is die-cut from Dee's Distinctively dies. The sentiment is from Penny Black.

Friday, 4 October 2013

The 'New, Improved' Inlinkz format makes choosing showcase cards really difficult, as after clicking on each one in order to visit the relevant blog, the thumbnail image then becomes very pale and fuzzy, making seeing any detail extremely difficult. Is this progress?

Anyway, having looked at a separate computer to see the thumbnails clearly, here are our choices for the Felt or Fabric Challenge!